Genealogy software now connects very large user communities to billions of historical records, family-tree profiles, DNA matches, and digitized memories. The figures below show the scale reported by Ancestry, MyHeritage, and FamilySearch, while keeping each measurement period and geography explicit.
Contents
- Platform reach and user populations
- Historical-record collections
- Family trees, sources, and digital libraries
- DNA databases and algorithmic discovery
- International access and learning
- Events and online engagement
- Digitization and preservation
Platform reach and user populations
The largest genealogy platforms report substantial subscriber, customer, and contributor populations, although the measures are not interchangeable. A subscriber is not the same as a registered user, a DNA customer, or a person represented in a family tree.
At the end of 2025, Ancestry reported more than 3.8 million subscribers and 29 million AncestryDNA customers. Its users had built 145 million family trees. These figures come from For Generations to Come: Reflecting on Our 2025 Impact and describe Ancestry’s reported year-end reach.
MyHeritage reported a different set of milestones in December 2021: 96 million users worldwide, more than one million annual subscribers, 82 million family trees, and 5.6 million DNA kits in its database. Those figures are from MyHeritage Surpasses 1 Million Annual Subscribers!. They are historical platform figures from that measurement period and should not be read as current totals.
FamilySearch recorded more than 285 million site visits during 2024, according to FamilySearch Year in Review 2024. Site visits measure activity rather than unique people, so this number is best understood as an indicator of usage volume.
Historical-record collections
Record coverage is one of the clearest ways to compare the scale of genealogy software, but collection totals can include different record types, images, indexes, and historical sources.
| Platform and period | Reported collection measure | Reported scale |
|---|---|---|
| Ancestry, end of 2025 | Records from 88 countries | More than 71 billion |
| Ancestry, 2025 additions | Records added during the year | 4 billion |
| MyHeritage, end of 2025 | Records on the platform | More than 38 billion |
| MyHeritage, 2025 additions | Historical records added | 6.6 billion |
| FamilySearch, 2024 | Records available to users | More than 20.5 billion |
| FamilySearch, 2024 additions | Searchable records and images added | More than 2.5 billion |
Ancestry’s 2025 impact report said users could access more than 71 billion records from 88 countries at the end of 2025, after Ancestry added 4 billion records during the year. Its 2024 impact report described the collection as more than 65 billion records in 2024. These are company-reported collection totals for their stated years.
MyHeritage added 6.6 billion historical records during 2025 and ended that year with more than 38 billion records on its platform, according to MyHeritage 2025 Year in Review. About 6 billion of those 2025 additions were records extracted from newspapers. The newspaper figure is a component of the reported additions, not an additional total to add on top of them.
FamilySearch users had access to more than 20.5 billion records in 2024, and FamilySearch added more than 2.5 billion searchable records and images during that year. Both figures are reported in FamilySearch Year in Review 2024.
Family trees, sources, and digital libraries
Genealogy software stores more than searchable historical documents. It also supports collaborative trees, linked sources, and digitized books.
The FamilySearch Family Tree contained 1.67 billion searchable people in 2024. More than 150 million people were added during the year, and contributors added 530 million sources. The tree had more than 3.4 billion sources in total. These figures come from FamilySearch Year in Review 2024.
FamilySearch’s Digital Library offered more than 630,000 free historical publications in 2024, after adding more than 45,000 digital books. The publication count and annual additions describe a free digital-library service, not the number of individual pages or records in each book.
MyHeritage reported more than 200 million family-tree profiles in its 2025 content total in MyHeritage 2025 Year in Review. Ancestry’s year-end 2025 figure was 145 million family trees, as reported in For Generations to Come: Reflecting on Our 2025 Impact. The two measures use different units: profiles versus trees.
For historical context, an Ancestry newsroom release said that by May 2009, members had created 10 million family trees containing 1 billion profiles. That legacy milestone is preserved in Ancestry.com Marks Milestone in User-Generated Family History Content. It should not be treated as a newly verified current count.
DNA databases and algorithmic discovery
DNA tools add another layer to genealogy software: large customer databases, geographic estimates, matching systems, and algorithmic links between people and trees.
Ancestry introduced 68 new or updated DNA regions in 2025. Its 2025 DNA work connected customers to more than 3,600 places worldwide, according to For Generations to Come: Reflecting on Our 2025 Impact. In 2024, Ancestry said a DNA update matched more than 27 million customers to over 3,000 places and populations and added 24 new ancestral regions. Those earlier figures are from For Generations to Come: Ancestry’s 2024 Impact Report.
MyHeritage reported 207 million Theory of Family Relativity theories after its February 2024 update. By that point, 2.8 million DNA kits had at least one theory result. A further update in August 2024 brought the total number of theories to 233.4 million, and MyHeritage reported more than 167 million DNA matches with theories. These measurements are from MyHeritage Year in Review.
The dates matter: theories and matches are platform-generated discovery outputs, not counts of confirmed biological relationships. The reported totals also come from different update points in 2024.
International access and learning
FamilySearch reported online access to records from more than 170 countries and principalities in 2024. It also began publishing searchable African oral-genealogy indexes for 12 African countries. The same year, it added 324 FamilySearch centers and ended 2024 with more than 6,500 centers worldwide. These figures are reported in FamilySearch Year in Review 2024.
The service’s learning infrastructure was also substantial. The FamilySearch Library offered 85 free webinars during 2024. For RootsTech 2024, FamilySearch described its free services as available through more than 5,000 centers in 129 countries, according to RootsTech 2024, A Global Family Celebration, Is Live.
The 2024 global-forum figures showed a strong Latin American presence: around one-third of FamilySearch users came from Latin America, Brazil accounted for 20% of users, and nearly half of new FamilySearch accounts created in 2023 came from Latin America. Those percentages are reported in FamilySearch Is a Worldwide Resource | Global Forum, and the account figure refers specifically to new accounts created in 2023.
Events and online engagement
RootsTech 2024 illustrates how genealogy software combines databases with social discovery and education. More than 4 million people attended in person and online, joining from 232 countries and territories. More than 500,000 participants viewed 5.9 million ancestral relationships through Relatives at RootsTech. These figures are from FamilySearch Year in Review 2024.
The event profile reported 1.8 million YouTube livestream attendants, more than 400 classes, 250 learning topics, 193 participating exhibitors, and content in 42 languages. These figures appear in RootsTech Is a Worldwide Genealogy Event!.
Relatives at RootsTech also produced large connection counts across nearby reporting periods. More than 500,000 people made over 5 million personal connections in 2023. By March 2024, more than 350,000 people from 208 countries had made over 350 million personal connections. The two reports use different dates and measures, so they should be read as separate event snapshots. Sources: RootsTech 2024, A Global Family Celebration, Is Live and View Inspiring Sessions from RootsTech 2024.
Digitization and preservation
The scale of genealogy software is also visible in preservation projects that capture oral histories, photographs, recordings, stories, and national record collections.
FamilySearch had interviewed more than 2 million people across 20 sub-Saharan African countries for oral-genealogy preservation, according to FamilySearch Is a Worldwide Resource | Global Forum. The resulting African oral-genealogy collection included information on more than 236 million family names, 8.3 million photos, 3.3 million recordings, and 1.7 million documented family stories.
The same global-forum source reported that FamilySearch’s Philippines collection contained more than 150 million record images, including 8 million images from Catholic parish records. It also described planned releases for Portugal and Italy: 130 million new images and 727 million names for Portugal, and 223 million new images and more than 583 million names for Italy. Those Portugal and Italy figures were described as planned releases in the 2024 update, so they are forecasts or intended outputs rather than completed totals.
In Ukraine, FamilySearch’s digitization work had reached 41 million images and 121 million names after three years, according to the same 2024 global-forum report. Taken together, these figures show that genealogy software statistics measure not only commercial reach, but also the continuing conversion of fragile, local, and family-held history into searchable digital resources.